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COMBINATION UMBRELLA HOLDER AND STAND. No. 518,581.

Patented Apr. 24, 1894.

TATES ATENT OFFICE.-

JAMES F. BARTLETT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM BOLDENVVECK, OF SAME PLAOE.

COMBINATION UMBRELLA-HOLDER AND STAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iatent No. 518,581, dated April 24, 1894.

Application filed October 2 1 893- To on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES F. BARTLETT, of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combination Umbrella-Holder and Stand, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to stands composed of three rods pivotally connected near their mid length in order that their opposite ends may be spread apart to form inverse tripods, one serving as the legs for supporting the article upon the floor and the other as the supports for the top of the article. Stands of this class have heretofore been made for use as umbrella holders, camp stools, hall stands and for other uses, being constructed and adapted to have one end serve always as the feet to stand upon the floor and the other as the top for receiving the article to be held.

The objects of my improvements are to pro vide a light stand adapted to be inverted in use to subserve different purposes and to provide such detail of construction as to make a knock-down article which can be readily set up by the user and which when set up will have rigid connections at the junctions of its several parts. I attain these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figurel is a side elevation of a stand embodying my improvements, used as an umbrella holder. Fig. 2 shows the same view inverted and used as a table. Fig. 3 is an enlarged de tail showing a plan view of a detached part." Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail showing a vertical section on the line 44t of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detailshowing a detached part partly in side elevation and partly in section. Fig. 6 is an enlarged section on the line 6-6 of Fig. 2. Fig. 7 is an enlarged section on the line 77 of Fig. 1. Fig. Sis an enlarged section on the line 8--8 of Fig. 2. i

In the drawingsA designates the rods which are provided with transverse beads, and a ball on each end chiefly for ornate purposes and to give a similar appearance to the stand either end up. A metallic band a encircles the rods and is secured thereto by screws a each passing through a hole in the band and into one of the rods, there being suflicient play of the Serial No. M6 965. (No model.)

screw in said hole to allow the rod to swivel on the band the screws also holding the rods out of contact with one another when folded so as to be in parallel relation with one another butallowing them to meet when swiveled on the band in spreading the ends. The rods are thus made free to fold in without rubbing and when spread they bind in the band so that no looseness remains at this point of connection.

Bis a sheet metal panwhich is provided with three equidistant ears I) on the rim. These are centrally recessed as shown in Fig. 4. A circular kerf or, is out in the rods near one end to receive said ears allowing the circular kerf part to set in the recess so as to be held in place thereby and to prevent the rods being moved toward one another on the rim. The bottom of the pan is raised and provided with corrugations b forstiifening it in order to enable it to serve its several purposes of pan and table top.

0 is a band having a concave interior 0 and a series of openings 0'. Said concavity of the band is adapted to fit upon the beads of the rods to aid in fixing the band in place, and said holes to receive screws a passing through the band into the rods for securing its connection thereto, the holes being so close together that one will fall upon each rod when the opposite ends of the rods are adjusted in the recesses in the ears ofthe pans.

For the purposes of shipment, the screws 0 being removed, the article is kndck-down, so the parts may be compactly boxed in quantity. The seller or user by the aid of the equidistant recesses in the rim or ears of the pans and the holes in the band C is enabled to readily assemble and connect the parts into a harmonious, symmetric whole, having its parts properly placed and rigidly secured at their several junctions so as to form a permanent article adapted to be used either end up, as an umbrella holder or a small table-like stand.

What I claim isl. A combination umbrella holder and table-like stand comprising three rods pivotally connected about mid-length to the interior of a metallic band allowing said rods to swivel and bind in spreading their'opposite ends, a sheet metal pan provided with three equidistant recesses in its rim and a stifi bottom, said recesses entering kerfs near one end of said a and screws 60', a sheet metal pan B provided with recessed ears I) and corrugated bottom secured in kerfs in said rods near one end, 15

and a perforatedsheet metal band C secured to the outside of said rods near the opposite end by its concavity fitting upon a bead, and screws as specified.

JAMES F. BARTLETT.

Witnesses:

ANNIE M. ADAMS, MAURICE CONWAY. 

